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Birthday January 9, 1905

• The temperature on January 9, 1905 was between 4.3 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
  • February 5 » In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties.
  • April 30 » Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
  • May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
  • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
  • December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1901 » Vilma Bánky, Hungarian-American actress († 1991)
• 1902 » Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint, founded Opus Dei († 1975)
• 1902 » Rudolf Bing, American impresario and businessman († 1997)
• 1907 » Earl W. Renfroe, African American orthodontist, educator, and activist († 2000)
• 1907 » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch († 2013)
• 1908 » Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and author († 1986)